from SERIOUSLY COMMA

IT MUST BE DONE IN A WAY

IT CANNOT BE TAUGHT (HE

SIMPLY HANDED ME A SPEC-

IMEN AND WAS GENEROUS

ENOUGH TO SAY: IT IS EASY

TO IDENTIFY. HE SAID

NOTHING ELSE. I THEN

NOTICED THE OPPOSITE

LEAVES ARRANGED ALTER-

NATELY ON THE STEM AT

RIGHT ANGLES). IT REMAINS

TO BE SEEN WHETHER

I'LL REMEMBER, HAVE TIME

TO DIG.

- from SERIOUSLY COMMA by John Cage, originally published in Preuves (Paris) March 1966; reprinted in "A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings by John Cage", 1969.